phil's blog

After completing the EPIC site, Jon and I had the opportunity to build another Drupal site for Columbia University. There's a bit of a technical description of it on my portfolio page. Here are a few implementation notes. Read more »

Rest in peace, Larry Fischer. One of the most extraordinary outsider performance artists, the original Wild Man was true to himself, and dedicated to his art. Mentally ill? Sure, that's what cynical reviewers would say. But could it be that he understood something that most would never see? Even the great Frank Zappa revered him. He was also the impetus behind the creation of Rhino Records. Read more »

I was just about to release the Drupal 7 version of Development Banner a few days ago, I got an error trying to install it on a local site during final testing:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function file_directory_path() in /var/www/html/sandbox/public/7.x/sites/all/modules/cowork/dev_banner/dev_banner.module on line 83 Read more »

I just released a Drupal 7 port of the Development Banner module. It was an illumiating experience, learning of some of the subtle changes required to go to D7. I'm liking 7 more and more, as a dig around under the hood with a source debugger. It is easier now to have a pretty complete separation between code and presentation, which has always been a kind of hold grail for web developers.

Special thanks to bocaj for his excellent suggestions and help with testing.

I've been working on the SWOC site recently, creating some custom theming and redesigning some of the Drupal architecture. The site was originally created by MentorNet, and they hired designer Micah Kasman to create an exciting new look. It was a fun challenge to realize some of his design concepts in a new theme. Read more »